Assessing the Portuguese wave-power resource

Denis Mollison and M.T. Pontes

Energy, 1992, vol. 17, issue 3, 255-268

Abstract: The Portuguese wave-power resource is estimated using 3 years of data from the U.K. Meteorological Office's wind-wave model, in addition to available wave buoy measurements for northern Portugal. The large-scale resource assessment includes basic statistics and the variability. The annual power averages 30–40 MW/km for the northern coasts, the main power being incident from directions between North and West. The variability is studied by means of power-duration curves and scatter tables. The present paper also includes a brief description of the preliminary survey of the Azores and Madeira archipelagos and of the mainland southwestern coast.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(92)90053-3

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